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Wtf? Don't they have businesses and other people using that internet access they are cutting? How do they get away with that?
by c00lio 3y ago
Wtf? Don't they have businesses and other people using that internet access they are cutting? How do they get away with that?
- BasedAnon 3y agoWell yeah but people just plan around it
- MattGaiser 3y agoExams are so high stakes that it is considered acceptable. In South Korea, you can get a police escort if late for your exam and flights get cancelled to ensure quiet. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202211/1279850.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202211/1279850.shtml
- moffkalast 3y agoThere is no exam high stakes enough anywhere to warrant this sort of disruptive nonsense.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> no exam high stakes enough anywhere Of course there are. They're manufactured bottlenecks with irrevocable and life-changing consequences. But that doesn't make them less real.
- godelski 3y agoBoth of you are saying quite similar things. I don't think you disagree. The parent was clearly not speaking in the literal sense.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoI think the comment I am replying to argues there is no need to cut the Internet. You and I are saying there is no need for such an exam. Given the exam, the measure makes sense. That it does points to the exam not making sense.
- godelski 3y agoThe parent can correct me, but I read it as "there should be no test where the stakes are high enough to warrant shutting own the internet, diverting air traffic, escorting students by police, or any other such high impact event." Which is equivalent to saying "no need for such an exam" but just in a different way. It follows a pretty common native (born, not race) American-English speech style.
- Sponge5 3y agoExams like this will select for people who can apply knowledge under pressure. Not a very important skill for most jobs I'd say.
- faangsticle 3y agoEspecially since this is not like this kills wifi and lans Seems like a slightly technically proficient cheater's dream. Perfect excuse.
- slim 3y agolet's call it a national resilience test
- quickthrower2 3y agoI imagine happiness increases that week!
- mrtksn 3y agoIt must be much easier to plan around it than cast any doubt over the integrity of extremely high stakes exam. So the situation in developing countries tends to be much different from the west: The difference between going to a prestigious school and any other school or no school at all can be like the difference between being a caveman and being Elon Musk. The successful students get on a track which gives them a life similar to the middle class one in the West, which is is so much different and often better than the life the rest of the population lives. The other route to the western middle class are the immigrant boats, but it's much better and safer to get into a good school.
- eastbound 3y ago> gives them a life similar to the middle class one in the West Successful students in Algeria get to immigrate to France. They’re literally middle class here (France has no qualms with letting their farmers commit suicide out of poverty and desperation).
- c00lio 3y agoFrench farmers are the highest-subsidized in all of the EU. One even gets subsidies for having fields lay fallow or reductions in production. And French farmers are well known for their drama. Spilling tons of milk on the motorway, drowning Paris in dung, threats of beheadings. So please forgive me when I just file "letting farmers commit suicide" as yet more drama...
- eastbound 3y agoDiscounting death because they’re drama queens. This is awful. Awful. I see that the nazis have won, in this world. Really, check out your soul. And it’s exactly why they’re committing suicide: No-one cares about their lives. They’re stock to you. They commit suicide because they’re not “priority education zones” (ZEP) which are reserved for racially chosen neighborhoods. So farmers remained bogans in France (like in UK), had low level of education, couldn’t progress to the levels that Arabs could progress to, and their supports disappeared from society. No future. No country for old men.
- layer8 3y agoYou could see it as similar to a national holiday for everything internet-related.
- InCityDreams 3y agoMight not actually be a bad thing, one day a year.
- toast0 3y agoThe US has a version of this on April 1. Important things still work, but it's best to avoid the internet (and mass media) on that day.
- makeitdouble 3y agoIt feels like a huge vector of attack though. An attacker gets to know in advance you won't be abale to react to anything online during 24h.